Warrenton office floor rugs

What Does Handmade Mean?

Handmade can mean many things. Price and quality depend on a number of factors in Warrenton.

Hand tufted: A tufted rug is made using a mechanical tufting tool that secures and inserts the yarns in the backing, often canvas. Since the tufted yarns are not securely enclosed by a knot, the backs of these rugs are usually sprayed or painted with adhesives to secure the pile yarn. These rugs cannot be truly called “Oriental rugs.”

Hand knotted: In a hand-knotted rug, each yarn is individually tied in a knot by the weaver. Each knot of yarn is tied securely around two or three strands of warp yarn, which is the vertical yarn set up initially on the loom as the basis for the rug that will be woven upon it. This is a completely handmade process, no mechanical tools are used.

A hand-knotted area rug will be more expensive than a tufted rug. In addition, a hand-knotted rug made in the crossed style of weaving is more time-consuming and durable (and expensive) than an uncrossed rug.

Shearing: After the rug is woven, overall shearing of the pile is done by hand, to an even depth or to variations of textural depth specified by the designer. Shapes within the overall design are usually incised, cut around carefully by hand to create dimension and clarity of design.

Knot count: This term refers to “knots per square inch.” The more detailed and complex the design, and the finer/thinner the wool, the more knots are required for clarity of color and design. High-quality rugs usually range from 50 to 100 knots per inch. Imagine the work that goes into that kind of hand weaving. Knot density will affect the cost of the rug.

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Guide to Oriental Rugs

Even if you have the most beautiful rug,it all falls by the wayside if you don't have the right size of rug. Area rugsdefine your space. In a dining room the rug centralizes the table and chairsacting like a foundation, a base or a landing for your furniture. But the mostimportant thing about a dining room rug is the size. Let's discuss the number onerule! With dining rooms, the key is to have comfortable space for your chairsto move in and out beneath the table without getting caught on the rug. Here'sa dining room with a three foot by six foot table in the center of the room. Andhere we have an area rug that sits under the table comfortably. But you'll noticethat the chairs are sitting half on and half off. So this rug is too small. Buthere we add 24 inches to each size of the table. It's important that you add toeach side of the table not just two feet to the length and width. This will giveyou the minimum space your rug should cover and will allow space for yourchairs to move in and out without getting caught on the rug. So in thiscase we need an area rug that spans the space of 7 feet by 10 feet. This sizemight be difficult to find so I'd round up to an 8 by 10 area rug. This rughere, albeit beautiful, is too close to the table size. You can see that thechairs are already on the edge of the rug. So if you were to pull out the chair,sit and then adjust the chair closer to the table, you'll be sitting half on and half off the carpet making it awkward anduncomfortable. Unlike these images here. there's plenty of room around the tablefor the chairs to move in and out. So here's your take away: In the diningroom, the rug centralizes the table and chairs acting like a foundation or alanding for your furniture. It's not enough to have a rug that just fits yourtable and chairs. The rule is to always add 24 inches to each side of yourdining room table to allow you to move your chairs in and out freely withoutgetting caught on the rug. Thanks for watching this little design tip. I'llhave lots more design tips just like this one coming soon so don't forget tosubscribe! I've got new videos every week. And leavea comment! I'd love to hear from you all and if you like this video please hitthe like button. See you soon!.

Antique Rugs Design Tips: No. 1 Rule for Dining Room Rug Sizes

We are going to talk about vintage rugs, and vintage rugs is a very unique product that's really popular today. A lot of people think that vintage rugs arerugs that were old rugs that are aged and have been around for a long time and theyare basically antiques, or maybe they are not antiques or…they really don't know what the difference between a vintage rug and an antique rug is. A vintage rug is a rug that's made to look old. It has what we call a vintage -- like in jeanstoday where they'll wear it out and make it look like it's been, you know, around fora hundred years and it's got holes in it and things of that nature. Where, in a rug, basically what we do is wetake an old Persian rug -- usually, I mean it could be any rug, it doesn't have to bethat, it could be a machine made rug, it doesn’t really matter -- basically we shear it downto the back so it's almost zero pile. We’ll will take it and then we’ll stripthe color. Usually it's some kind of caustic or chemicalsthat we use in order to strip the color out, so once you get done, it’s a rug that basicallyhas no color in it. It's just basically shadows of grays and brownsmostly, and maybe hints or hues of blues and blacks, that kind of show the design whichwas woven into it originally. You have taken a perfectly brand new rug,very bright and colorful, and you have taken all the color out of it that point. Then there's also a process that we do alsowhat we call over-dyeing, and that can also be part of that vintage look. The rug behind me is an example of basicallya vintage rug that's been over-dyed. So we’ve take a 30-year old Persian rug,and basically what we've done is stripped it down, sheared it, recolored it to makeit more into today's world. It is so popular, I can't even explain howpopular it is. Mainly because it looks so real, it looksso worn, it looks so inviting, and also it's just a dream to decorate around. You can imagine that you're not like mostoriental rugs with a lot of patterns and color, you know, popping off the rug. This is a rug that's very subtle and you backoff of it 10 to 15 feet into the room, you really don't even see the pattern. You just see the beautiful warmth of the coloringand the irregularities to those colorings. What you are seeing in the back, the whitestuff, that is actually the foundation of the rug popping through, because again youare at zero pile, so there's little imperfections that happen because of that. Also, there are also some damages done tothat as well, so we correct those damages as best that can be done, and so part of thevintage thing is to have those holes in them or wornness in them or repairs in them. Either you get it or you don't, I always havecustomers who get it home and they'll realize, ''Hey, it looks like it's been repaired”. Yes, it has, and it's been done professionally,it's going to hold up, but a lot of people are saying, ''I want my money back''. I can understand that too, and we unfortunatelyhave to accept that that is part of them not understanding the product, and we didn't reallyexplain it enough, but it really is a gorgeous product that allows us to take rugs that are…notselling, basically, and convert them into a very popular, hot item, that has a lot of appeal. So that's what a vintage rug or an over-dyedrug can be.